Internet Surveillance Law in the UK and Article 8 'Right to Privacy'
(2018) JAMM07 20171Department of Law
Faculty of Law
- Abstract
- The danger that mass surveillance poses to concepts of ‘freedom’ and ‘democracy’ have long been a topic of fiction as well as of hard academic study. George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four is a work that some might disregard as mere post-apocalyptic whimsy but its arguably accurate recreation and prediction of the methods utilized by the totalitarian government to maintain absolute control over a population serves to give the novella a grim level of scholastic technicality and precision. The technology that forms the fictitious Ingsoc (English Socialism) government’s central instrument of oppression was impossible at the time the book was composed. Known as the telescreen, it has the simultaneous function of a television, security camera and... (More)
- The danger that mass surveillance poses to concepts of ‘freedom’ and ‘democracy’ have long been a topic of fiction as well as of hard academic study. George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four is a work that some might disregard as mere post-apocalyptic whimsy but its arguably accurate recreation and prediction of the methods utilized by the totalitarian government to maintain absolute control over a population serves to give the novella a grim level of scholastic technicality and precision. The technology that forms the fictitious Ingsoc (English Socialism) government’s central instrument of oppression was impossible at the time the book was composed. Known as the telescreen, it has the simultaneous function of a television, security camera and microphone. Government officials whose job it is to look for physical and mental signs of subversion permanently man it. It is present in the homes of all politically relevant members of society and cannot be turned off. Today, such technology is not only possible but all too real. (Less)
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- author
- Whiskard, Spencer LU
- supervisor
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- Karol Nowak LU
- organization
- course
- JAMM07 20171
- year
- 2018
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- Internet, Surveillance, Article 8, Right to Privacy, Technology, ECHR, ECtHR, IPA 2016, Investigatory Powers Act 2016, Hacking, Data, Digital, 1984, Freedom
- language
- English
- id
- 8938637
- date added to LUP
- 2018-04-26 13:59:52
- date last changed
- 2018-04-26 13:59:52
@misc{8938637, abstract = {{The danger that mass surveillance poses to concepts of ‘freedom’ and ‘democracy’ have long been a topic of fiction as well as of hard academic study. George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four is a work that some might disregard as mere post-apocalyptic whimsy but its arguably accurate recreation and prediction of the methods utilized by the totalitarian government to maintain absolute control over a population serves to give the novella a grim level of scholastic technicality and precision. The technology that forms the fictitious Ingsoc (English Socialism) government’s central instrument of oppression was impossible at the time the book was composed. Known as the telescreen, it has the simultaneous function of a television, security camera and microphone. Government officials whose job it is to look for physical and mental signs of subversion permanently man it. It is present in the homes of all politically relevant members of society and cannot be turned off. Today, such technology is not only possible but all too real.}}, author = {{Whiskard, Spencer}}, language = {{eng}}, note = {{Student Paper}}, title = {{Internet Surveillance Law in the UK and Article 8 'Right to Privacy'}}, year = {{2018}}, }